Mark Mobius’ Top 10 Investment Tips

Mark Mobius has 10 investments tips for investors. They are all good advice:

1. Keep an eye on value

2. Don’t follow the herd

3. Be patient

4. Dripfeed your money into the market

5. Examine your own situation and your appetite for risk

6. Diversify your portfolio

7. Don’t listen to your friends or neighbours when it comes to making investment decisions

8. Don’t believe everything you read in newspapers, because things tend to be exaggerated

9. Go into emerging markets because that is where the growth is

10. Look at countries where populations are relatively young

SMA Comment: Investors are presented an excellent opportunity every 4-5 years to pick up investments cheap. We’ve just come through one of those periods. Now investors should be patient and not sell prematurely.

Disclaimer: It is very difficult to outperform a buy and hold strategy. Many investors have found themselves best served over long time horizons by investing regularly in a diversified portfolio of stocks or low cost, broadly diversified indexed stock funds. Information presented is based on analysis of past data and assessments by the Tactical Timing System model. Future performance may not reflect past performance. Profitable trades are not guaranteed. No system or methodology ensures stock market profits. Although accuracy is strived for, no guarantee is made regarding the accuracy of data presented. Nothing presented here should be considered investment advice, but merely the humble opinion of the author.